Export includes older versions of file

[Graeme Babbs]

I'm using InDesign 16.1 on a MBP with OS 10.15.7 (Catalina). I've updated a file with newer versions of posters and leaflets and updated the date of publication printed on the poster. when I export the new file to pdf or png, legacy information is included - ie parts of an older version poster (see attached - the bottom 2 leaflets are not supposed to be in this version, and you can see overwriting where I've shuffled leaflets around). They don't show in InDesign (indeed, they aren't there - only the new information is in the current indd file). I thought it was a Acrobat problem, but the png file is the same. Does anyone know what's going on and how I solve it?

Thanks

Graeme

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Links, Swatches, …) visible? 

Might there be objects on the Master Page? 

[Graeme Babbs]

And there it is on the master page <face palm>. How did  I miss that? (Why even did I do that?! Did I do that?). (These are all rhetorical questions).

Thank you so much.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Did you include Non-Printing Objects when exporting the pdf? 

[Graeme Babbs]

No, I didn't do that. here's the pdf dialogue box.

[Geоrge]

Save your indd as idml, open this idml and save as indd. Then from this new .indd try to do an export to PDF.

[Graeme Babbs]

Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what I get when I open the idml file. All the legacy text is there, but I can't touch it. It's not in any layer. I've coloured the 'top copy' that I can edit in yellow. The identical text in white 'doesn't exist'.